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[msmemory_archive]

Philip is Queen Elizabeth the Second's husband, not Queen Elizabeth's second husband, as reported this morning.

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Royalty Watcher

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[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Those damn floating apostrophes! ;)

[silme.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they're trying to scoop that little-known first marriage. What little-known first marriage? You mean you didn't know? (Heck, I don't think Elizabeth knew! ;)

Should I ask what network?

Here in England, we've been watching the Torch coverage in London and all of the protests that go with it.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

NBC.

We're seeing negligible coverage of the Torch demonstrations over here.

[silme.livejournal.com]

BBC 24 and Sky News have been live all day with the Torch. Apparently, the Chinese are hoping people elsewhere will only see the good scenes -- not the one where the torch was almost ripped away from the woman carrying it at one point, etc. I'm sure there will be more protests in Paris, which is the next big city to have it.

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Totally OT -- Icon love!

[silme.livejournal.com]

Are you a Green Man fan also? :)

We have a collection of Green Men (and Women) images along the wall going up the stairs in the house, along with a Green Woman outside in the back garden.

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!

IIRC, your icon is from Norwich Cathedral. I grew up near Norwich and fell in love with the Green Man when I discovered him in the cathedral.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Yes, he's from Norwich. I haven't been up that way for a while, though; we live down in the New Forest.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

Here's another great Queen Elizabeth typo, this one from Reuters (not live -- it's a screen capture.)

http://ordinary.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/queenbee_1.jpg

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious! The dangers of auto-correction, I imagine.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

That explains why Charles and Anne look different from Andrew and Edward. They're the children of the late HRH Archibald St. Pancras Liftgate-Poodledropping, Duke of Nether Nottybits. I thought you knew.

But that's okay. As it happens, I was just checking something on the SCA Northern Shores website, where I found that the Duchy of Edinburgh is a fief of the heir to the throne. Never knew that %^).

And finally, I do hope that at the 275th Anniversary celebrations of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Massachusetts, the Grand Master gets his forms of address right. Twenty-five years ago, the Pro Grand Master of England (IIRC) was the Earl Cornwallis (overheard: "I wonder if he's related to that Earl Cornwallis"), and was addressed as "Earl". Damn ugly Americans.....

[ladymacgregor.livejournal.com]

All right, I'll display my ignorance. What DO you call the Earl of Cornwallis? (I assume he's "of"?) I thought that he would be "Lord Whichywhat, the Earl of Cornwallis" and would be addressed as "Lord Whichywhat" (or "Earl Cornwallis"?). But is there a one-word appellation? ("Sir"? "Your Grace"? I figure that both "Lord" and "Earl" are wrong.)

I had this reasonably straight for the SCA, but I know the real world is different.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

The first time you address him directly, say "Lord Cornwallis". After that, he's "My Lord". In indirect reference, he's introduced as "the Earl Cornwallis" and referred to as "Lord Cornwallis".

It's really no different, functionally, than the usage for gentlemen (and esquires, which is where I sorta rank as an American college graduate[*]): I'm introduced as "Mr. Steven Mesnick", I'm addressed initially as "Mr. Mesnick" and subsequently as "Sir".

And he is the "Earl Cornwallis", not the "Earl of Cornwallis". There are some few earldoms that don't include the preposition, notably this one as well as Spencer (the brother of the late Princess of Wales). The peerage guides like Burke's and Debrett's go into ferocious detail about which do and which don't. Conversely, BTW, most viscountcies don't, which is why the late Princess Margaret's son is Viscount Linley.

[*] No, really. When I subscribed to the journal of The Heraldry Society, the mail was addressed to "Mr. Steven Mesnick, Esq.".

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

And you address him as "Cornwallis" only if you are a good friend, right?

[kimbari.livejournal.com]

*falls on the floor laughing*

[lecil.livejournal.com]

I heard that too! Had to TiVo to make sure she'd really said what I *thought* she'd said. I'm going to be somewhat charitable and figure that she just mis-read the teleprompter....